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The Oliver Brown Award
Since 1983 the SI has honoured a Scot each year with an award named
after the late W Oliver Brown who over many decades contributed a pithy
column which was the first item read by many SI devotees. The
"Oliver" was first awarded to the author and climber Tom Weir
and is now regarded as the Scottish equivalent the "Brits"
so-called honours list. The roll call of winners indeed does read as a
list of outstanding Scots - Tom Weir, Prof. Derick S
Thomson, Ewan Bain,
Mary Marquis, David Stephen, Jimmie
MacGregor, Muriel Gray, George Rosie,
Norman MacCaig, Dr John Purser, Gordon Wright, Dorothy-Grace Elder, Colin Bell, (jointly) James S Adam and Sir Alastair
Dunnett,
Elspeth King, The Gaberlunzie (Gordon Menzies and Robin Watson), Paul
H Scott, Murray Ritchie,
Kenneth Roy, and
Iain Anderson.
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